Hip Hop Music Technology and Blowing UpDaniel Roy droy@mit.edu February 3, 2003Hip hop music production has changed drastically in the past decade as the advent of digital computers and the Internet have changed the face of music production. Tools and sounds once reserved for six-figure production facilities are now readily available to the amateur producer willing to spend several thousand dollars out-fitting his own personal studio. Even cheaper, software-only packages lower the entry level even further with some incredibly powerful packages selling for less than fifty dollars. But high-priced production facilities have spawned a new market of even better, faster, more capable, and expensive equipment to replace the equipment that has become cheap enough for everyone to buy. Questions concerning equipment and its role in hip hop have never been more relevant. With access to computers becoming cheaper and those computers becoming faster and more powerful, more hip hop producers now have access to the ...